(LifeSiteNews) — JD Vance, Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, told Tucker Carlson this week that media polling is corrupt and used as a weapon to control the behaviors of American citizens as well as elected officials.
“Standard media poll(s)” are “fake. They’re absolutely fake,” he remarked.
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Vance, 40, currently serves as Ohio’s junior U.S. senator. He spoke with Carlson for just under 40 minutes in a highly anticipated interview that the media did not want to happen because Carlson recently dared to have on a historian who dissented from the prevailing historical assessment of Winston Churchill during World War II.
While stating that he believes Trump will likely win on election night — “my prediction 60/40 is that we have a relatively early night on Tuesday” — Vance explained that the methodology used by pollsters isn’t an accurate way to capture what the American people are thinking.
“A standard media poll … (is) conducted by what’s called online panels. In other words, they have a group of people that they go to again and again and again,” he said. “If you actually look at the good pollsters, they’re telling you a radically different story because they’re talking to a representative sample of the United States.”
Carlson agreed with Vance’s assessment, noting that “a lot of these polls are designed not to measure opinion but to shape it.”
To which Vance added, “The purpose of these polls is actually manipulation of both the public themselves, but also, of course, elected officials.” There is “a voter suppression dynamic here where you try to get people to get depressed and to drop out of the democratic process.”
The polling industry has been working overtime since Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’ first and only debate earlier this month. Most polls seem to suggest that Harris has gained several points in recent weeks, with betting markets now being less optimistic about a Trump victory in November. At the same time, forecaster Nate Silver gives Trump more than 60% chance of winning the Electoral College.
Vance acknowledged Harris’ bump. “Polls have shifted a little bit in their direction,” he said. But he added that her internal numbers “very clearly show that she’s not doing very well in the states that she needs to win.”
Vance and Carlson also observed that journalists are not off-the-field bystanders just watching current events play out but are active participants in the process itself.
“Journalists are to electoral politics what the CIA is to international relations,” Vance said.
“Journalists are players in the political system,” Carlson replied. “And they do not disclose that to their readers … they play the role of kind of like covert diplomats.”
The 2024 election is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, which is 46 days away.